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A gas canister blew up at a Morningside house in Bulawayo and torched property worth around 700,000 ZiG before firefighters showed up to stop the whole place from getting leveled. The city's fire chief says his crew pulled off a decent save by protecting six expensive cars and about 1.1 million...

A restaurant running a canteen at the Manhize steelworks site got its stuff seized by court officers after dodging a 27-grand debt to a chicken supplier owned by ex-police commissioner Oliver Chibage. Hotplate Grillhouse and its director stopped paying for hundreds of birds, plus vegetables and...

A Midlands legislator thinks other cities should copy Bulawayo's kombi system because it keeps drivers from acting wild and cuts down on crashes. Perseverance Zhou told parliament the city corralled minibuses into three or four designated spots and keeps them on fixed routes instead of letting...

Zimbabwe's health minister is telling people not to freak out about American funding getting yanked because the country has enough HIV meds stockpiled to last through the next 10 months. Douglas Mombeshora says the government and National Aids Council have already started buying more supplies to...

A church group in Bulawayo is running cleanup events to fix the reputation of students who got known for starting fights and hanging around downtown, causing problems. The World Mission Society Church of God grabbed kids from Milton High who had beef with rival schools and got them picking up...

A lawmaker from Binga South wants the government to throw actual money at Zambezi Valley communities in next year's budget because the area keeps getting ignored despite having economic value. Fanuel Cumanzala told reporters that residents deal with terrible roads, barely any health clinics...

A Zimbabwean senator from Matabeleland South is blasting ZIMRA over a treasury order that permanently seizes goods flagged as smuggled without letting people pay duties or fix paperwork mistakes. Nonhlanhla Mlotshwa told the Senate the policy bypassed parliament and is hitting small-scale...

Steven Bartlett is spinning up a tech news site called Founded that's going to cover startups and business stuff in the UK and America. The Dragons' Den guy is hiring about 10 reporters plus an editor-in-chief to run the whole operation, and the site is supposed to target founders and people...

Britain's financial regulator is about to start policing ESG rating companies for the first time after the sector blew up into a multibillion-dollar mess. The FCA dropped a consultation saying these agencies need to explain their scoring methods and deal with conflicts of interest because the...

Keir Starmer says Rachel Reeves never lied about the budget mess after the Treasury and OBR got into a fight over whether public finances actually got worse. The prime minister claims tax hikes were always inevitable despite weeks of noise about potential income tax increases that never...

A Lithuanian startup that makes probiotic drinks just landed the biggest investment ever recorded on any European version of Shark Tank. Cannumo pulled in a million euros from investor Tadas Burgaila for their fermented beverage called Goodie, which packs 96 different bacterial strains and gets...

Accenture just told its 800,000 employees they're all reinventors, which is the consulting giant's way of saying it's betting everything on AI. CEO Julie Sweet is pushing the rebrand hard after smooshing all the company's divisions into one thing called Reinvention Services, and she already...

The UK just bailed on backing a massive gas project in Mozambique after years of protest over climate damage and human rights disasters. Business secretary Peter Kyle yanked the £870 million loan guarantee from TotalEnergies, saying it doesn't serve British interests anymore. The whole thing has...

Black Friday flopped hard in the UK as people stayed home from stores over economic anxiety, and footfall tanked 2 percent compared to last year's already weak numbers. Online sales were mixed, with one day crashing but earlier in the week doing better. Experts are saying consumers are still...

Britain is about to lock in a pharma deal with Washington that cuts US import tariffs on meds and forces the UK to spend more on NHS drugs. The agreement drops rebate rates for branded medicines and bumps up the cost-per-year threshold used to judge if treatments are worth it by about 25 percent...

Lifelong Republican cattle ranchers in Georgia ditched their party for the first time over skyrocketing electric bills and a proposed data center next to their property. Two Democrats won massive upsets for utility board seats in some of the reddest counties after voters got fed up with rate...

Trump started his second term saying he might go easy on kids brought here young and Afghans stuck after the messy Biden withdrawal, but that all went out the window pretty fast. A college freshman who lived stateside for 12 years got shackled and deported when she tried flying home for...

The Trump administration just yanked credentials from thousands of truck driver training schools and put a bunch more on notice. Transportation officials say they pulled accreditation from almost 3,000 centers for not meeting standards, and another 4,000 might get the boot within a month if they...

Trump went full nuclear on immigration after an Afghan guy shot two National Guard members, and the crackdown is hitting legal immigrants harder than anything we've seen in forever. The administration paused every single asylum decision for people already here, started reviewing green cards from...

The White House is defending that boat strike from September, where they killed some suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean, and then apparently fired again to finish off whoever survived the first hit. Defense Secretary Hegseth gave orders to take out the boat and everyone on it, but...